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Agents / Buyers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
A 40,000-bushel wooden grain elevator at Libau, on the CNR Victoria Beach Subdivision in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements, was built in 1946 by Searle Grain. Expanded to 100,000 bushels around 1956, the facility was sold in 1967 to Federal Grain and in 1972 to Manitoba Pool. Extensive renovations in mid-1995, at a cost of $331,000, increased its throughput from 2,800 to 4,000 bushels per hour. Closed by Agricore in 2001, the eleator was sold into private ownership. The elevator appeared to be unused at the time of a 2018 site visit.
Period
Agent / Buyer
1946-1972
?
1972-1975
Lawrence W. Oehlerking
1975-1987
Peter Lebitt
1987-1989
Jan Swaak
1989-1998
Greg Stefaniuk
1998-2001
?
Aerial view of grain elevators at Libau (no date) by Howdy McPhail
Source: Howdy McPhail Aerial Photographs, University of Saskatchewan
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Libau (no date)
Source: Agricore United Engineering Department, Tom Price (Mgr), provided by Glenn Dickson (University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections)
Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Libau (1970s)
Source: Russell Kroeker
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Libau (July 2014)
Source: Jean McManus
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Libau (August 2018)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Former Manitoba Pool grain elevator at Libau (March 2023)
Source: Jordan MakichukSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.26976, W96.71642
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Grain Elevator / Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator B (Libau, RM of St. Clements)
Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.
We thank Jean McManus, Russell Kroeker, and Jordan Makichuk for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 May 2024
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